Thursday, July 20, 2017

15

Desktop notification in browser using JavaScript

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In most of the sites have today their own desktop notification system to connect user in a large scale. So how to create a desktop notification for your site. Its very simple to generate a new notification using JavaScript, you have to write hardly 2-3 lines of code. Lets create one to generate desktop notification.

To create a new notification for user you have to follow three steps.
  1. Is the browser supports the notification feature. If not show an appropriate message.
  2. Ask user to allow the notification feature to show.
  3. Create a new notification and a click event to fire.
First lets start with whether the browser is supportable to show notification. For this we will use JavaScript Notification object to do all the operation.
 
if (!Notification) {
    alert('Desktop notifications not available in your browser. Try Chromium.');
    return;
}

 And when the user has opened the site prompt user with an box, saying user to allow the site to show notification. For this use follow code block.

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
    if (Notification.permission !== "granted")
        Notification.requestPermission();
});

 Now create a button in the body & by clicking on that button a notification will be shown.

<button onclick="notifyMe()">
    Notify me!
</button>

Now in the script section add the Notify() method and write the following piece of code.

function notifyMe() {
    if (!Notification) {
        alert('Desktop notifications not available in your browser. Try Chromium.');
        return;
    }
 
    if (Notification.permission !== "granted")
        Notification.requestPermission();
    else {
        var notification = new Notification('Notification title', {
            icon: 'https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/495133521262825472/wxlvCGWy.jpeg',
            body: "Here is your notification!",
        });
 
        notification.onclick = function () {
            window.open("http://asp-arka.blogspot.in/");
        };
    }
}

Here are the full code.

<html>
<button onclick="notifyMe()">
    Notify me!
</button>
<script>
    // request permission on page load
    document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
        if (Notification.permission !== "granted")
            Notification.requestPermission();
    });
 
    function notifyMe() {
        if (!Notification) {
            alert('Desktop notifications not available in your browser.');
            return;
        }
 
        if (Notification.permission !== "granted")
            Notification.requestPermission();
        else {
            var notification = new Notification('Notification title', {
                icon: 'https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/495133521262825472/wxlvCGWy.jpeg',
                body: "Here is your notification!",
            });
 
            notification.onclick = function () {
                window.open("http://asp-arka.blogspot.in/");
            };
        }
    }
</script>
</html>

Host the file in any server like IIS or Apache to run it. Direct running the file in browser won't work out. Click on the Notify button to get the notification. Change the text and image according to your requirement. 

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

14

Installing TypeScript in Visual Studio

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In this first tutorial of TypeScript we will get to know how to install TypeScript in Visual Studio and use it in the same. Starting from the scratch Microsoft provides different extension for TypeScript for different versions of Visual Studio. So I have Visual Studio installed in my PC. So, I will go with VS 13 but for later versions it is almost same to install the TypeScript.


1. To download TypeScritpt for Visual Studio follow the below links
 Download the application and install it.


2. After installing the patch open Visual Studio and create a new web project. Right click on the solution and you can see there is a option in the menu to add TypeScript file.









3. Add the TypeScript file with extension .ts. At the time of adding this file if your project doesn't contain the TypeScript compiler DLL then it will prompt you and will redirect you to Nuget Package Manager to install that.




4. Install the Microsoft.TypeScript.Compiler using Nuget Package Manager or you can download it using Package Manager console.




PM> install-Package Microsoft.TypeScript.Compiler


5. Your TypeScript is ready for coding, Write a few lines of code and save it. after saving you will see a JavaScript file of the same name will be generated in the same domain.




Click on the Show All Files button to show the files that are not included in the project. Within that we will find the JavaScript file of the same name of TypeScript file.











Wednesday, February 22, 2017

14

How to send encrypted mail in C#

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It was a request of one of my client to send the mail as encrypted so that this kept secure while sending to customers. So after a search I found Jason Niver's code to be very handy to use. So I am sharing this will all so next time it becomes little bit easy to get.
 
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.IO;
using System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
 
namespace CommonUtilities
{
    //requires reference to System.Security
    class EmailUtil
    {
        public static void SendEncryptedEmail(string[] to, string from, string subject, string body, string[] attachments)
        {
            MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
            message.From = new MailAddress(from);
            message.Subject = subject;
 
            if (attachments != null && attachments.Length > 0)
            {
                StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
                buffer.Append("MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n");
                buffer.Append("Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=unique-boundary-1\r\n");
                buffer.Append("\r\n");
                buffer.Append("This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n");
                buffer.Append("--unique-boundary-1\r\n");
                buffer.Append("Content-Type: text/plain\r\n");  //could use text/html as well here if you want a html message
                buffer.Append("Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit\r\n\r\n");
                buffer.Append(body);
                if (!body.EndsWith("\r\n"))
                    buffer.Append("\r\n");
                buffer.Append("\r\n\r\n");
 
                foreach (string filename in attachments)
                {
                    FileInfo fileInfo = new FileInfo(filename);
                    buffer.Append("--unique-boundary-1\r\n");
                    buffer.Append("Content-Type: application/octet-stream; file=" + fileInfo.Name + "\r\n");
                    buffer.Append("Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n");
                    buffer.Append("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" + fileInfo.Name + "\r\n");
                    buffer.Append("\r\n");
                    byte[] binaryData = File.ReadAllBytes(filename);
 
                    string base64Value = Convert.ToBase64String(binaryData, 0, binaryData.Length);
                    int position = 0;
                    while (position < base64Value.Length)
                    {
                        int chunkSize = 100;
                        if (base64Value.Length - (position + chunkSize) < 0)
                            chunkSize = base64Value.Length - position;
                        buffer.Append(base64Value.Substring(position, chunkSize));
                        buffer.Append("\r\n");
                        position += chunkSize;
                    }
                    buffer.Append("\r\n");
                }
 
                body = buffer.ToString();
            }
            else
            {
                body = "Content-Type: text/plain\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit\r\n\r\n" + body;
            }
 
            byte[] messageData = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(body);
            ContentInfo content = new ContentInfo(messageData);
            EnvelopedCms envelopedCms = new EnvelopedCms(content);
            CmsRecipientCollection toCollection = new CmsRecipientCollection();
            foreach (string address in to)
            {
                message.To.Add(new MailAddress(address));
                X509Certificate2 certificate = null; //Need to load from store or from file the client's cert
                CmsRecipient recipient = new CmsRecipient(SubjectIdentifierType.SubjectKeyIdentifier, certificate);
                toCollection.Add(recipient);
            }
 
            envelopedCms.Encrypt(toCollection);
            byte[] encryptedBytes = envelopedCms.Encode();
 
            //add digital signature:
            SignedCms signedCms = new SignedCms(new ContentInfo(encryptedBytes));
            X509Certificate2 signerCertificate = null; //Need to load from store or from file the signer's cert
            CmsSigner signer = new CmsSigner(SubjectIdentifierType.SubjectKeyIdentifier, signerCertificate);
            signedCms.ComputeSignature(signer);
            encryptedBytes = signedCms.Encode();
            //end digital signature section
 
            MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(encryptedBytes);
            AlternateView view = new AlternateView(stream, "application/pkcs7-mime; smime-type=signed-data;name=smime.p7m");
            message.AlternateViews.Add(view);
 
            SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("your.smtp.mailhost");
            //add authentication info if required by your smtp server etc...
            //client.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
            client.Send(message);
        }
    }
}


Now its time to install the certificate, for this go with the bellow codes.


using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
 
private X509Certificate GetCertificate()
{
    X509Store store = new X509Store(StoreName.My, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);
    store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadOnly);
    X509Certificate2Collection certs = store.Certificates.Find(X509FindType.FindBySerialNumber, “123456”, true);
    store.Close();
    return certs[0];
}


Sources:
1. Sending encrypted mail
2. Using certificates from the Windows certificate store
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